RE: [agi] Religion-free technical content & breaking the small hardware mindset

2007-10-09 Thread Edward W. Porter
PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: [agi] Religion-free technical content & breaking the small hardware mindset With googling, I found that older people has lower IQ http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060504082306.htm IMO, the brain is like a muscle, not an organ. IQ is said to

Re: [agi] Religion-free technical content & breaking the small hardware mindset

2007-10-09 Thread a
With googling, I found that older people has lower IQ http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060504082306.htm IMO, the brain is like a muscle, not an organ. IQ is said to be highly genetic, and the heritability increases with age. Perhaps that older people do not have much mental stimulati

RE: [agi] Religion-free technical content & breaking the small hardware mindset

2007-10-08 Thread Edward W. Porter
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Re: [agi] Religion-free technical content & breaking the small hardware mindset

2007-10-06 Thread a
Edward W. Porter wrote: It's also because the average person looses 10 points in IQ between mid twenties and mid fourties and another ten points between mid fourties and sixty. (Help! I'am 59.) But this is just the average. Some people hang on to their marbles as they age better than others

RE: [agi] Religion-free technical content & breaking the small hardware mindset

2007-10-05 Thread Edward W. Porter
Re: [agi] Religion-free technical content & breaking the small hardware mindset On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 08:39:18PM -0400, Edward W. Porter wrote: > the > IQ bell curve is not going down. The evidence is its going up. So that's why us old folks 'r gettin' stupide

Re: [agi] Religion-free technical content & breaking the small hardware mindset

2007-10-05 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 08:39:18PM -0400, Edward W. Porter wrote: > the > IQ bell curve is not going down. The evidence is its going up. So that's why us old folks 'r gettin' stupider as compared to them's young'uns. --linas - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email T

Re: [agi] Religion-free technical content & breaking the small hardware mindset

2007-10-03 Thread Russell Wallace
On 10/4/07, Edward W. Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The biggest brick wall is the small-hardware mindset that has been > absolutely necessary for decades to get anything actually accomplished on > the hardware of the day. But it has caused people to close their minds to > the vast power of b

RE: [agi] Religion-free technical content & breaking the small hardware mindset

2007-10-03 Thread Edward W. Porter
Mike Tintner wrote in his Wed 10/3/2007 6:22 PM post: "BUT THERE'S NO ONE REMOTELY CLOSE TO THE LEVEL, SAY, OF VON NEUMANN OR TURING, RIGHT? AND DO YOU REALLY THINK A REVOLUTION SUCH AS AGI IS GOING TO COME ABOUT WITHOUT THAT KIND OF REVOLUTIONARY, CREATIVE THINKER? JUST BY TWEAKING EXISTING SYS